CaseFlash2020
North Plains, OR, USA
Flash in the sky
Report quality: Moderate44/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 4s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (16 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-03
- Where
- North Plains, OR, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 45.597, -122.993 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-north-plains-or-2020-131fd3
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in North Plains, OR.
- This case is one of 237 Oregon reports filed in 2020.
- Flash craft made up 1.1% of 2020s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.